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Propaganda masquerades as teaching in the schools
WASHINGTON — The real vocation of some people entrusted with delivering primary and secondary education is to validate this proposition: The three R's — formerly reading, 'riting and 'rithmetic — now are racism, reproduction and recycling. Especially racism. Consider Wisconsin's Department of Public Instruction. It evidently considers "instruction" synonymous with "propaganda," which in the patois of progressivism is called "consciousness-raising."
Wisconsin's DPI, in collaboration with the Orwellian-named federal program VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America; the "volunteers" are paid), urged white students to wear white wristbands "as a reminder about your privilege, and as a personal commitment to explain why you wear the wristband." A flyer that was on the DPI website and distributed at a DPI-VISTA training class urged whites to "put a note on your mirror or computer screen as a reminder to think about privilege," to "make a daily list of the ways privilege played out" and to conduct an "internal dialogue" asking questions such as "How do I make myself comfortable with privilege?" and "What am I doing today to undo my privilege?"
After criticism erupted, the DPI removed the flyer from its website and posted a dishonest statement claiming that the wristbands were a hoax perpetrated by conservatives. But, again, the flyer DPI posted explicitly advocated the wristbands. And Wisconsin's taxpayer-funded indoctrination continues, funded by more than Wisconsin taxpayers.
In Delavan-Darien High School's "American Diversity" curriculum, students were urged to verify white privilege by visiting a Walmart toy section and counting the white and black dolls. After objections, the school district is reconsidering this curriculum.
Such distractions from the study of calculus and literature are encouraged by CREATE Wisconsin (the acronym stands for Culturally Responsive Education for All: Training and Enhancement), which is funded with federal tax dollars from IDEA, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. The disability being rectified here is, presumably, the handicap of insufficient guilt — arising from false consciousness — about white privilege.
Today, the school systems in 20 states employ more non-teachers than teachers. The Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice reports that between 1950 and 2009, while the number of K-12 students increased 96 percent, full-time equivalent school employees increased 386 percent. The number of teachers increased 252 percent, but the number of bureaucrats — including consciousness-raising sensitivity enforcers and other non-teachers — increased 702 percent. The report says states could have saved more than $24 billion annually if non-teaching staff had grown only as fast as student enrollment.
Higher education, from which much of such diversity and sensitivity nonsense trickles down, cries poverty while spending lavishly on administrative overhead irrelevant to its teaching and research missions. The Manhattan Institute's Heather Mac Donald notes that in 2011, while the University of California at San Diego was pruning academic offerings, it created a "vice chancellor for equity, diversity and inclusion" to augment a diversity apparatus that included an assistant vice chancellor for diversity; faculty advisers, staff, graduate and undergraduate diversity coordinators and liaisons; a director of development for diversity initiatives; the Committee on Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation Issues and much more.
Perhaps tens of millions could be diverted from progressive gestures to academic purposes by abolishing on every American campus every administrative position whose title contains the words "diversity," "equity," "race," "ethnicity," "sustainability," "green," "gender," "inclusion," "identity," "interconnectivity," "globalization," "climate," "campus climate," "cross-cultural" or "multiculturalism."
No corner of the country is immune to propaganda pretending to be pedagogy. Lincoln Brown of KVEL Radio in Vernal, Utah, says one student from the University of Utah showed him required reading that told students to "list ways your family may have colluded with or benefited from the exploitation of African-Americans." Another reading was titled "White Privilege — Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack."
Twenty-five years ago, President Reagan, paraphrasing Education Secretary William Bennett, said: "If you serve a child a rotten hamburger in America, federal, state and local agencies will investigate you, summon you, close you down, whatever. But if you provide a child with a rotten education, nothing happens, except that you're liable to be given more money to do it with." But only until the soaring tuitions and taxes that fund this featherbedding for administrators of political correctness create a critical mass of parental and taxpayer disgust.
George Will writes for the Washington Post Writers Group. Send email to firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Dear Jane Quilt Inspiration
Make Your Own Dear Jane Quilt
Jane A. Stickle's 1863 quilt has inspired quilters worldwide to create their own treasured versions ever since Brenda Manges Papadakis drafted the 169 square blocks, 52 pieced border triangles, and four pieced corner triangles and published them in the book Dear Jane: The Two Hundred Twenty-Five Patterns from the 1863 Jane A. Stickle Quilt (EZ Quilting by Wrights; 1996).
Diane Rode Schneck and Judy Doenias have been teaching Dear Jane classes at The City Quilter in New York City for 12 years. Their sample quilt, In Our Time, nicknamed "Technicolor Jane," has inspired many of their students to make their own versions.
Go Bright and Bold
Diane Rode Schneck and Judy Doenias used a wide range of calicos, batiks, hand-dyed fabrics, and novelty prints in bright, saturated colors in In Our Time. Dark sashing makes each block pop.
Showcase Fussy-Cut Designs
The quilt, which they began in 1999 and finished in 2005, also contains hidden surprises, such as a cat fussy-cut from a novelty print. Both Judy Doenias and Diane Rode Schneck stitched the square blocks; Judy assembled them. Diane constructed the triangles and did the quilting.
Choose Your Method
Some blocks of In Our Time are pieced, such as the orange and black triangle at the top of this photo. Others are hand-appliquéd, such as the red heart triangle block in the middle. The yellow and black triangle block at the bottom of the photo uses both techniques. There are no written instructions--only diagrams of drafted blocks--so quilters can choose the method that works best for them. Get tips and tricks for assembling blocks at dearjane.com.
Unify Blocks with a Favorite Print
For a cohesive look Emily Shuff Klainberg of New York City based the palette of Finished Before Barbara on a multicolor print that appears in many of the blocks. Emily gave the quilt its name because she completed her Dear Jane quilt before her twin sister, Barbara, finished hers.
Make Shapes Stand Out
High-contrast fabric combinations-such as pink and black-in each block give Emily Shuff Klainberg's quilt a graphic look overall.
Challenge a Fellow Quilter
Barbara Shuff Feinstein of Auburn, New York, named her version … But I Am a Goddess. Although she finished after her twin sister, Emily, she made all 52 triangle blocks in addition to the square blocks and corner blocks.
Experiment with Values of Color
Barbara Shuff Feinstein chose a range of blue and brown fabrics in varying values and styles-from plaids to batiks-to give her quilt depth and interest. Hints of red draw viewers' eyes around the quilt.
Stick with a Two-Color Palette
Blue Sky, Sunshine by Anna Krassy contains Dear Jane blocks in the outer border. Anna arranged the yellow blocks in two adjacent borders of the quilt and the blue blocks in the remaining borders to enhance the ombré effect created by pieced strips in her quilt center.
Use Novelty Fabric to Make a Themed Quilt
Some quilters can't get enough of Dear Jane. Pamela Leonard Wexler has made more than 30 Jane-inspired quilts. Each of her takes has a different theme. Jane Plays with Dolls makes use of a collection of doll-print novelty fabrics.
Give Dear Jane a Seasonal Spin
Jane's Christmas Tree, another quilt by Pamela Leonard Wexler, shows how Dear Jane blocks can take on a seasonal look. Pamela arranged her dark and light blocks in rows to form a Christmas tree shape. The red and green blocks resemble ornaments and the beige blocks add subtle interest to the background. Pieced holly leaf blocks on either side of the red-and-green blocks add to the tree effect.
Position Blocks to Form Bands of Color
Gold Rush, another Dear Jane quilt by Pamela Leonard Wexler, contains a sunshine yellow band through the middle that's framed in fiery red.
Add Special Touches
While the quilt has a stunning overall pattern, Pamela Leonard Wexler still included fun surprises, such as fussy-cut stars, for those who see the quilt up close.
Try Hand Appliqué
Janalyn Martinez learned a new skill-hand appliqué-when she made Jane Taught Me How to Appliqué. She hand-appliquéd colorful shapes to black foundations rather than piecing the blocks. The small blocks make it easy to practice new techniques in manageable sessions.
Work with a Group
Members of the Empire Quilters Guild pieced the queen-size Broadway Jane for a raffle. The quilters used just one color and black for each block and arranged them diagonally to form a rainbow.
Choose a Light Color Palette
Ayako Ishizuku chose a subtle colorway featuring Japanese taupes, batiks, and various prints for My Dear Jane.
Customize Blocks Based on Your Interests
To personalize her interpretation, Ayako Ishizuku fussy-cut designs, such as piano keys from a music-theme novelty print, to showcase in some of her blocks.
Represent a Time Period
Amy Ronis saluted the 1950s and '60s by combining an array of novelty prints-from aliens to martini glasses-in Kitschin' Jane.
Match Fabric Designs with Block Shapes
What 1950s-theme quilt would be complete without a block dedicated to Elvis Presley? Amy Ronis chose a block with large squares that could accommodate the size of the designs.
Focus on the Triangle Blocks
Pamela Leonard Wexler focused on the 52 Dear Jane triangle blocks and the four corner blocks when creating Peridot and Periwinkle Blue Medallion. She surrounded a multicolor panel with 12 of the triangles and used the remaining ones for a border.
Use a Monochromatic Color Scheme
From periwinkle to navy, various shades of blue create a monochromatic border for Pamela Leonard Wexler's quilt.
Let One Color Pop
Pamela Leonard Wexler reserved orange for the quilt corner blocks to draw attention to them.
Use Small-Scale Prints
Prints with a small pattern work well for Dear Jane blocks. Here graphic prints make Randy Keenan's block look even more intricate.
Make Blocks Appear to Be Set on Point
Woman in Transition by Leslie Morgan reveals how adding black sashing and four dark triangles around each Dear Jane block allows individual blocks to stand out. In this case they almost appear to be set on point.
Combine Dear Jane Blocks with Another Pattern
Pamela Leonard Wexler re-created Trail Mixby Mabeth Oxenreider from the June 2004 issue of American Patchwork & Quilting® magazine. She then surrounded the design with a border of dark blue Dear Jane blocks.
Use Vintage Textiles
Vintage lace takes center stage on Lady Jane, a wall hanging by Pamela Leonard Wexler. Pamela surrounded the lace with nine Dear Jane blocks and gave the quilt a scalloped edge similar to the original quilt.
Re-Imagine Dear Jane Blocks
Dear Jane blocks made in blue and white look like falling snow in Like Snowflakes, Every Dream is Different by Pamela Leonard Wexler. She enhanced the winter look by using a snowflake-theme print for the borders.
Use a Single Fabric Collection
Fairy-theme fabric provides the concept for Fairy Tails by Pamela Leonard Wexler. Pamela arranged her Dear Jane blocks diagonally so pops of red and pink flit and flutter around the quilt.
Get the Dear Jane Book
To make your own Dear Jane quilt, get your copy of Dear Jane: The Two Hundred Twenty-Five Patterns from the 1863 Jane A. Stickle Quilt (EZ Quilting by Wrights; 1996) by Brenda Manges Papadakis. The book contains drafted patterns for all blocks and letters written by Brenda to Jane. Purchase the book and learn more about Dear Jane at dearjane.com.

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Francesca Metcalf: Meant to Compete
Francesca Metcalf sits on her bedroom floor for over an hour, fixated, clicking and forming the top layer of a Rubik's Cube. A few days later she wakes up and finds the Rubik's Cube in her bed. "It's a little sad," the Boston-area climber, who turned 18 in March, says, "how much time I've put into it."
Francesca Metcalf sits on her bedroom floor for over an hour, fixated, clicking and forming the top layer of a Rubik's Cube. A few days later she wakes up and finds the Rubik's Cube in her bed. "It's a little sad," the Boston-area climber, who turned 18 in March, says, "how much time I've put into it."
Metcalf is the first to call herself stubborn and competitive, especially with herself. "If you make something into a competition for me, from pull-ups to eating to watching TV, I will give 200 percent and not stop until I've won, or at least feel that I've done my absolute best."
This time last year, women's bouldering comps were generally Alex-v-Alex (Puccio and Johnson) shows, and they were highlights in American climbing; but no franchise lasts forever. And if you looked just out of the spotlight, the name of this rising star in the East kept clocking in just below the storied two. Last year, at 17, Francesca was third behind the Alexes at the ABS Nationals at Sportrock, Alexandria, Virginia, in February, and fourth behind them and the venerable Lisa Rands at the Earth Treks Roc Comp in Baltimore (part of the United Bouldering Championships Pro Tour) in April. In June she was the third American woman at the Bouldering World Cup at the Teva Games, Vail, Colorado, finishing 12th out of 37 women. Most recently, at the ABS Nationals at the Spot Bouldering Gym in Boulder in February, she ended up in second behind Alex Puccio. "I'm still in shock," she said, adding, "I just love big comps like this. If nationals were every weekend, I would go to every one."
A smooth and methodical, even patient, climber, Francesca makes hard moves look easy, so much that her falls seem sudden and surprising. Unfortunately, at Youth Nationals on the weekend after the ABS event, Francesca dynoed for the top, skipping a hold, fell, landed badly on a mat, and dislocated her ankle, putting her in a boot cast and on crutches. Still, she has kept up her training as possible, and will compete at the Teva Games World Cup the first weekend in June, after which she hopes to travel overseas for the World Championships in Arco, Italy.
Comps are Metcalf's focus this year, but this fall she starts college at Georgia Tech, and expects to spend less time traveling and more time climbing outdoors; almost all her applications were to schools in the Southeast, for its great climbing and warm weather. Metcalf's outdoor record at the moment is relatively thin, but includes her first V10, Ten Ten, and many V9's including Glass Roof, both at Hueco. She is primarily a boulderer, but routes include two 5.13a's at Rumney and one in Spain. One of a trio of climbing sisters, including Olivia, who turns 20 in June, and Amelia, 15, Francesca started climbing at 5 and competing at 8, with teams at the Boston Rock Gym and now Metro Rock.
Where do you go to school?
A private, all-girls, Catholic school—Ursuline Academy. I have a uniform: a plaid skirt, white polo shirt and knee socks, but sadly the nuns get angry at us if we come to school looking like Britney Spears. A lot of people ask me how I deal with not having boys at my school or wearing the same thing every day, but truthfully, I love it. Not having boys or a choice in outfits are just two less things to stress about.
How has growing up climbing affected your teen years?
I've grown up with the climbing community as my second family and I've learned from them, about winning and losing, and caring for the environment. It is kind of disappointing to miss out on things that normal teenagers do. Then again, I've had so many more experiences than most people my age. I think I've been to 15 different countries for climbing. I've learned, "Win with grace and lose with grace." When I was little I wasn't always a great winner. Or a great loser either. We have a video, it's kind of embarrassing: We're standing in my hallway, my coach had just told me I could climb on the team, and I'm saying "Oh yeah, I'm the best climber, watch me climb this door frame," and then I just fall on my face and get up and say, "Well, I'm still the best climber."
Did climbing keep you on the straight and narrow?
I've never done any drugs at all, and I don't want to. I've seen what kinds of things people get into and I value everything too much to go down that road. Beer? Not really. My parents are just really against alcohol. Even if it was just one beer, they would send me to AA [laughs].
Worst experience in climbing?
Getting hurt at this last comp. That was not very fun, especially having to be carried out in a stretcher with an oxygen mask. They were really convinced I was going to go into shock or something.
Do you eat carefully to be thin?
[laughs] I try to eat well but it does not go well. At all. I'm a horrible eater. I gave up chocolate for Lent and it has been such a struggle, so horrible. I eat like at least a million calories a day.


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For the latest updates to Global Public Square, including show information and Fareed's Take, visit the new GPS site on CNN.com.
Please people, do vote for me as I want to be your next President. Thank you for your attention.
Not me! We have enough Republic idiots running as it is!
I am a dentist. If u steal my name again then I will pull your teeth out. Punk!
Hey, I'm the true Joey Isotta-Fraschini here and please don't call me a Punk, Pfunnie Boy. Thank you.
Easy joey. Easy. It's just a troll.
An ordinary run of the mill troll.
Who, me or Pfunnie Boy above?
I see the black gay jewish boy is stealing names again.
Are u washed in the blood of the lamb?
Is your soul from the lamb white and spotless as snow.
When was the last time that u spoke to Jesus???
Cleanse the blood of the lamb. Be free.
Jesus loves u. He wants u to drink the blood of the lamb.
And they triumphed over evil men by the blood of the lamb. So it is written.
Bless the Lord.
Ye shall be saved by the love of the lamb.
I am Muslim refugee. We run away from home because we are too coward to fight ISIS.
We hope to murder more Christians by throwing them into the sea.
Haha. Obama is very stu pid and dumb azz.
He will let us in like the filthy wet backs so we can commit crimes.
Haha. Your president is very stu pid
We the cowards running from ISIS will kill more Christians as we have done.
Go ahead. Feel sorry for us. We will kill americans too one day.
Fuk you all
Serena Williams is a fat old ugly pig. No wonder she lost.
She is a 40 something year old pig.
She lost to a nobody. She's done.
Oink oink
Donald Trump is a clown. He will never be president.
Too dumb
Anne Coulter and jennifer lopez are both dig sh it
Oops. Meant "dog" sh it.
Sugar ray Lenard is one of the best boxers in history.
God BLESS HIM
Tom Brady is a fraud and a cheat.
He didn't notice that football was just a little easier to grab in winter?
Fuk him and his whole family.
God does NOT EXIST. This world is much too cruel
If you are reading this. ..you are lucky. For I am TRUTH
Excuse me while I just grab my Stradivarius and play for a sold out audience this Saturday night.
Manny and Mayweather couldn't even come close to beating Surgar Ray all things being equal. ..in their prime.
There you are! I just found my Stradivarius violin. It was in my closet. Gonna nap then perform tonight.
Even cheap violin with fake label say Wurlitzer tool of devil what no devout Muslim play.
Violin is devil symbol. Touch strings, must wash compleat cleaned.
All violinist is Jew.
All good violinist.
Is Jew, or gay.
Piano too.
Qui est le vrai Joey?
C'est moi!
Huh? Been drinking joey?
Trolls often post while drunk.
I, Joey, attended Mass yesterday, but I did not take communion wine.
Hello, Pfunnie boy. It's good to hear from you. Are you drunk now?
I never drink alcohol.
Just watch you on CNN with Don Lemon . Do not agree . You should not lie to american about how well the US Economy is doing . Talking about Trump when you are doing the same thing . Very Sad
@rob. I'm having your baby
Sonny, no matter how strenuously you push, you will never have a baby.
It's just not Yahweh's way.
Without reference to CNN journalism. It is obvious that Donald Trump is thriving as the American Dream, materialistically, always functioned best.
Life is not "fair" in the way that the word "fair" is perceived by many, many American citizens and their guests.
To me, Donald Trump's success is absolutely fitting and just in the USA, where freedom is prized.
I personally side with Trump's position on the issues. Seems America is fed up with SOME of the illegals coming here and committing serious crimes. Yes. They ARE ILLEGAL.
Trump struck a nerve.
A friend of mine, a confirmed Democrat, says that he likes Trump because he cannot be bought.
Think about it. Trump is not a career politician.
Nevertheless, HILLARY 2016.
@ rupert is correct about "illegal."
That confusion of definitions reminds me of "the definition of 'is.'"
Some of the most motivated workers - and most successful new USA citizens - came from south of the border very legally, thank you, and endured hardships to "make it" in our Free country.
I love my country. I'm sorry to see its departure.
@me. Time for your daily walk. Let's go!
Never eat a banana while making eye contact with someone
Yahweh is the Lord.


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Chris Floyd points out that the humanitarian disaster in Somalia is even worse than that in Darfur, and that the Somalia disaster is caused by the kind of American intervention and 'regime change' that the Zionists are screaming for in Sudan. Of course, the Somalia regime change was yet another Israeli-inspired replacement of a government which was considered to be too Islamist. Floyd concludes by making the same big mistake that has become commonplace: alleging that the United States is in an energy war in East Africa with the Chinese. It is certainly true that the Zionist infiltrators in the American government we know as neocons have always hated China, and to the extent they still control American foreign policy they are doing whatever they can to cause conflict with China. However, as the American Establishment slowly retakes control of the American government, we will be seeing American foreign policy again reflect the real interests of the Establishment.
Since mathematicians started working on perfecting manufacturing as part of the American war effort in the 1940s, it has taken decades for the utopian dream of the capitalists – manufacturing anything, anywhere, including where labor costs are the lowest – to be realized. There have been many false attempts at dropping factories in the middle of nowhere, but no matter how many Western managers and techniques have been applied, they all ended in financial disaster. It was only in the 1980s that computer control mechanisms were perfected to the extent that capital was completely mobile. Since, both for legal and personal reasons, labor isn't mobile, an immediate arbitrage situation appeared whereby capital could take even a larger slice of the pie from labor. Thus, the sudden renewed interest in 'free trade'. China quickly became the obvious choice for manufacturing, with its combination of extremely low wages, totalitarian police state discipline, and welcoming government policies intending to use factories to modernize the country.
Just about everything that can be manufactured for the American market is now manufactured in China. There is no debate in the American Establishment: their wealth, and the financial health of the United States, is dependent on Chinese manufacturing. Since Chinese manufacturing is itself dependent on a reliable source of energy, there is no real conflict between the United States and China over oil (although there may be phony conflicts caused by the continuing malign influence of the Zionists in the American government). This fact has huge repercussion on American policy in the Middle East (more on this to come).
The one industry where manufacturing is still largely done in the United States is the automobile industry. The huge size of the industry, together with the iconic symbolism of the automobile in American life, meant that it was politically impossible to make the obvious move to manufacture automobiles in China. Now that the big three American automobile manufacturers are effectively insolvent, the time has come to make the move to China. Why was the incompetently managed, and serially insolvent, Chrysler attractive to Cerberus? Chrysler is the first American automobile manufacturer to set up manufacturing in China for the American market. Keith Naughton writes:
"Now the new owners at Chrysler promise to rethink what it means to be a car company. Cerberus Capital Management, the Wall Street private-equity firm named for the three-headed dog that guards the gates of Hell, has Motown rabid with speculation this week about the fallout from its $7.4 billion buyout of beleaguered Chrysler. A skilled and secretive turnaround outfit, Cerberus is expected to overhaul Chrysler in a way that could create a new model for Detroit, which badly needs a tuneup. Last year, GM, Ford and Chrysler combined to lose more than $16 billion, as the remnants of Henry Ford's old model finally ran out of gas. Detroit insiders say they expect Cerberus to shake up the moribund American auto industry by asking this simple question: does a car company have to build all its own cars?
It could prove to be a transformative question. Rather than each Detroit automaker building every kind of car and truck – and losing their shirt on most of them – they could be design and brand houses that build only the things that make them money. After all, the thinking goes, customers only care about the product, the brand and the price. Why not focus on designing a car, marketing it and selling it, rather than manufacturing it?"
Cerberus will want to make Chrysler attractive so it can resell it in a few years at a big profit. There is no way to do that by continuing to manufacture in the United States. Despite some questions, the China deal is still on. Once the profits start rolling in, it is inevitable that all American automobile manufacturers will follow. The television industry disappeared in the United States with nary a whimper, and the automobile industry is sure to follow.


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Homeless people offer lesson to minor league pitcher
Editors note: Dirk Hayhurst, 26, is a 1999 graduate of Canton South High
School. The San Diego Padres selected the right-handed pitcher in the eighth
round of the 2003 draft out of Kent State University. The 6-foot-3,
200-pound Hayhurst has a 2-0 record with a 2.61 ERA with the San Antonio
Missions of the Class AA Texas League. He writes a diary for Baseball
I have played professional baseball for the last five years. I love my job,
and things are going great.
But I have a confession to make. An apology of sorts. This job in and of
itself is not very important. We don't cure sick people or pass laws or
teach youth. We play a game.
However, sports figures, even little ones like me, are looked at as role
models in our society. For better or worse, we have a public voice. Whether
we deserve it or not - we don't - is irrelevant.
Here is what I want to apologize for: I have not used that public voice to
make the world around me a better place.
It's not like I've been out fighting dogs or selling drugs. It's just I
haven't really done anything. I sit back and continue to believe that the
world revolves around me, which is easy to do when people beg for your
autograph, even for an article of clothing you've touched. But it's a lie.
I am nothing special.
This offseason, I decided to work at a homeless shelter. It wasn't a
publicity stunt, and I'm not revealing this to make myself look golden. I
tried to talk myself out of it. I had thoughts like, "I can't do this
because I am not one of those volunteer kinda people - they are the ones
that excel at this."
Then I thought, "I would help these folks out a lot more if I just made it
to the big leagues and bought them all houses. I need to focus on me."
In the back of my mind I would always think, "Besides, you only become
homeless in America if you make bad choices so they must deserve it right?"
Pathetic? Yes. Misguided? Sure. But I thought that way.
Then I went. This is what I learned: That people in those shelters had more
in common with me then I could have imagined. They are marginalized people.
Folks the world has forgotten. Pushed out of the norms of our society and
stereotyped as something they are not. They would tell me stories of their
hardships: Medical bills, family tragedy, layoffs, cutbacks, abuse, fires.
Not the "bad choices" I had envisioned. Just heart-breaking reality.
How is this like pro baseball? Well, those people in that shelter are real.
Just like I am a real person. I play a high-profile sport, and they live a
low-profile life, but we are still people - equally valuable and equally
Each of us lives in a culture that makes us into something we are not. I am
not great because I wear a costume for a living or because I am blessed with
a strong throwing arm. They are not bad people because life has dealt them a
cruel hand. We are the same.
When I first went into that shelter, I brought minor league baseball cards.
I was going to sign them and hand them out because most people love this. I
thought it would be great.
Then, as I stared into the eyes of a man whose shoes were soaked from the
winter slush, whose face was worn from life's hardships and shoulders heavy
from carrying all his earthly possessions, it dawned on me: What is my
signature on a piece of cardboard going to do for this man?
Do I really want to live in a world where my autograph can make people line
up to receive it, but a man's life can be pushed aside and forgotten?
I thought I was going to be a great person for spending time with those
marginalized people. Going into it, I really did believe I was better then
they were. After all, I was one of our culture's golden boys. But this is
before I knew the truth.
If you asked, I'd say all life is equal. Most of us would. But you need
only look at the world to see we don't act that way. Those people gave me
more than I ever could've given them. They broke the bubble of my
selfishness and helped me see the misappropriation of importance our culture
places on titles and stations.
The sports editor of this paper told me to mention I was a pro baseball
player because people will listen to me. So be it. I am a pro baseball
player, but there is nothing important about me that is not also important
about you.
We are the same. We are people and need one another. Our voices should have
the same power. We don't have to be big league baseball players to save the
world, because big league or not, we all have hearts and the ability to act,
love, show kindness, humility and mercy.
Those things know no class distinction, nor should we.
To see a video of Dirk Hayhurst demonstrating the power of the wind at a
minor league game, go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_7Dj7t58vQ


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The connection between U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez and Dr. Salomon Melgen's interests in natural gas is the latest example of the close symmetry between the senator and his millionaire backer.
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WASHINGTON — Sen. Robert Menendez sponsored legislation with incentives for natural gas vehicle conversions that would benefit the biggest political donor to his re-election, the same eye doctor whose private jet Menendez used for two personal trips to the Dominican Republic, an Associated Press investigation found.
The disclosure reflects the latest intersection between the New Jersey Democrat who is the subject of an ethics inquiry on Capitol Hill and the Florida doctor involved in a federal criminal investigation.
Dr. Salomon Melgen invested in Gaseous Fuel Systems Corp. of Weston, Fla., and joined its board of directors in early 2010, according to the company's chief executive and a former company consultant. GFS, as the company is known, designs, manufactures and sells products to convert diesel-fuel fleets to natural gas. The amount of Melgen's investment is confidential under rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission, but a 2009 document filed with the SEC showed the company required a minimum individual investment at that time of $51,500.
At the same time, Menendez emerged as a principal supporter of a natural gas bill that would boost tax credits and grants to truck and heavy vehicle fleets that converted to alternative fuels. The bill stalled in the Senate Finance Committee, and after it was revived in 2012, the NAT GAS Act failed to win the needed 60 votes to pass.
While the bill was under consideration between 2009 and 2011, the former consultant for GFS spent $220,000 lobbying Menendez's staff and other congressional and federal officials on the act's provisions as well as other regulatory issues, according to interviews and Senate records.
There is no evidence that Menendez offered direct help or intervened on behalf of the company or Melgen. Instead, the connection between the two men's interests in natural gas is the latest example of the close symmetry between the senator — who recently rose to become chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee — and his millionaire backer. It illustrates the way Menendez's political clout has at times overlapped with Melgen's financial investments.
In recent weeks, Menendez has acknowledged other dealings with Melgen. Menendez was compelled to reimburse $58,000 for two flights aboard Melgen's private jet that he had previously failed to report, prompting scrutiny by the Senate Ethics Committee. Menendez also acknowledged that his office had contacted U.S. health agencies in 2009 and 2012 to question their billing practices and policies amid a dispute between Melgen, an eye specialist, and federal health authorities. FBI agents in January searched Melgen's offices in Florida and seized files as part of a criminal investigation.
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Menendez also raised concerns last year with State and Commerce Department officials about the Dominican Republic's reluctance to enforce a port security contract with a company that Melgen partly owns.
A spokeswoman for Menendez, Patricia Enright, told the AP that the senator supported the natural gas bill to help improve the environment. She said Menendez personally had no known discussions with either Melgen or others associated with GFS concerning the legislation or its impact on the company. She said it was unclear whether the senator will continue to support the bill he had sponsored.
Melgen's attorney in Miami, Kirk Ogrosky, told the AP in a statement that "Dr. Melgen has never discussed his involvement with Gaseous Fuel Systems Corp. with either Sen. Menendez or his staff."
An SEC document filed last week by GFS showed that Melgen remains on the company's board of directors. An earlier document filed by the firm in May 2011 was the first to show Melgen as a director. That SEC record showed a $6 million investment in the firm from two unnamed individuals.
The company's top executive, Ken Green, said Melgen is a key investor but has had no influence on the company's decision-making and has not attended any director's meetings since he joined the firm.
"Dr. Melgen hasn't ever been to our offices, not once," Green told the AP. "He's a passive investor."
Green said the Senate bill that Menendez supported would provide only limited help to his company because most of its provisions are aimed at heavy on-road vehicles like truck rigs and bus fleets. GFS has pioneered an engine conversion system that can be installed on diesel-fueled vehicles, but Green said it is marketed exclusively for off-road equipment, such as massive mining trucks. The tax credits proposed by the bill would do little to offset the cost to buyers of the off-road trucks, which can cost as much as $8 million, Green said.
"This bill won't do much of anything for us," he said.
But in 2010, when Melgen first invested in GFS, the firm was actively considering marketing its natural gas engine devices for on-road vehicles. The bill, both in its 2009 and 2012 versions, authorized changes to IRS rules allowing larger tax credits for on-road, natural gas-supplied trucks and vehicles as well as grants for research. The proposal also urged the Environmental Protection Agency to streamline rules covering the conversion of diesel and gas engines to natural gas and alternative fuels.
GFS said in October 2010 in a press release that its strategy "integrates four related areas of business development," including "on-road coal truck conversions." The release, written by the company's consultant and then-director of strategic projects, Elio Muller, also said that "a vast number of on-road 18-wheeler tractor-trailer trucks hauling coal" in the Appalachian region of Kentucky and West Virginia could be converted to combination diesel-natural gas engines with the GFS system.
Muller, a former Commerce Department official in the Clinton administration involved in several Tampa businesses, said last week that he introduced Melgen to Green and other GFS officials in early 2010. Green also said Muller was instrumental in bringing the company to Melgen's attention. Muller said he has known Melgen from Florida's Democratic political circles dating back to the late 1990s. At one point, Muller drew up plans to start a business, Melgen & Muller Inc., but the men never followed through.
Melgen has made investments in health-related companies since the 1990s, according to SEC reports, but his GFS stake is his only evident natural gas-related investment. Green said he met several times with Melgen and found him to be an "intelligent investor" but could not explain his sudden interest in natural gas.
"I don't know how he found out about natural gas, but he liked what we were doing and thought it was innovative," Green said.
By early 2010, when Melgen formally joined GFS, Menendez had already taken on a key role in backing the natural gas bill, joining Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada and Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah as out-front sponsors.
The NAT GAS Act quickly drew energy and environmental battle lines. Oil and alternative energy magnate T. Boone Pickens led corporate natural gas industry backers of the bill, aided by the Obama administration and influential environmental groups. Arrayed against the bill were top oil and coal firms and even some green activists, joined by industrialists David and Charles Koch, whose political action group, Americans for Prosperity, harnessed opposition from conservative groups.
Green said he did not authorize or hire any lobbyists on behalf of GFS because he was skeptical about broadening into the markets for on-road trucks. But he did not block the activities of Muller, who in addition to his consulting role with GFS, had also started his own firm, Diesel 2 Gas. It aimed to license GFS technology and use the firm's parts to outfit on-road trucks.
In June 2010, representing both GFS and Diesel 2 Gas, Muller testified before an EPA panel in Ann Arbor, Mich., about what he called "cumbersome and unnecessary" rules that hurt GFS and other natural gas firms. The EPA agreed to alter its regulations in April 2011.
Between 2009 and 2011, Muller also ran an independent consulting firm, Muller Group Inc., which paid $220,000 to lobbyists from Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck LLP to lobby for the NAT GAS Act and related issues.
Muller said he accompanied the lobbyists in at least one meeting with Menendez' staff about the bill but could not recall details. Melgen and Muller joined Menendez at a signing ceremony in Miami in January 2010 for the senator's book, "Growing American Roots." And last June, they joined Menendez at the annual U.S.-Spain Council Annual Forum in Jersey City.
Muller said he did not discuss his lobbying activities with Melgen, even though they were both involved with GFS.
Both Muller and Melgen also have fundraising ties to Menendez. Muller gave $5,000 to Menendez' New Jersey Senate re-election campaign in 2011. Melgen has been a staunch supporter, giving more than $14,000 directly to Menendez since the late 1990s and, through his eye clinic, donating $700,000 last year to a "super" political committee that supported Democratic Senate candidates. The committee, in turn, spent $582,000 to back Menendez' campaign.


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By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press SHAWNEE, Okla. (AP) -- One of several tornadoes that touched down Sunday in Oklahoma turned homes in a trailer park near Oklahoma City into splinters and rubble and sent frightened residents along a 100-mile corrid...
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SHAWNEE, Okla. (AP) -- One of several tornadoes that touched down Sunday in Oklahoma turned homes in a trailer park near Oklahoma City into splinters and rubble and sent frightened residents along a 100-mile corridor scurrying for shelter.
The tornadoes, high winds and hail across Oklahoma, Kansas and Iowa were part of a massive, northeastward-moving storm system that stretched from Texas to Minnesota.
At least four separate twisters touched down in central Oklahoma late Sunday afternoon, including one near the town of Shawnee, 35 miles southeast of Oklahoma City, that laid waste to much of a mobile home park.
Across the state, 21 people were injured, not including those who suffered bumps and bruises and chose not to visit a hospital, said Keli Cain, a spokeswoman for the Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management.
Following the twisters, local emergency officials went from home site to home site in an effort to account for everyone. Cain said that, many times in such situations, people who are not found immediately are discovered later to have left the area ahead of the storm.
Forecasters had been warning of a general storm outbreak since Wednesday, and for Sunday's storms some residents had more than a half-hour's notice that a twister was on the way. Tornado watches and warnings were in effect through late Sunday in much of the nation's midsection.
The trailer park west of Shawnee was among the hardest-hit areas, and among the hardest to reach, as tractor-trailers that forced the closure of a section of Interstate 40 north of the site and power lines draped across roads to the south.
James Hoke lives with his wife and two children in Steelman Estates Mobile Home Park. He said the family went into their storm cellar as the storm approached. When they came out, their mobile home had vanished.
"It took a dead hit," Hoke said.
A storm spotter told the National Weather Service that the tornado left the earth "scoured" at the mobile home park.
"It seemed like it went on forever. It was a big rumbling for a long time," said Shawn Savory, standing outside his damaged remodeling business in Shawnee. "It was close enough that you could feel like you could reach out and touch it."
Gov. Mary Fallin declared an emergency for 16 Oklahoma counties that suffered from severe storms and flooding during the weekend. The declaration lets local governments acquire goods quickly to respond to their residents' needs and puts the state in line for federal help if it becomes necessary.
Heavy rains and straight-line winds hit much of western Oklahoma on Saturday. Tornadoes were also reported Sunday at Edmond, Arcadia and near Wellston to the north and northeast of Oklahoma City. The supercell that generated the twisters weakened as it approached Tulsa, 90 miles to the northeast.
"I knew it was coming," said Randy Grau, who huddled with his wife and two young sons in their Edmond home's safe room when the tornado hit. He said he peered out his window as the weather worsened and believed he saw a flock of birds heading down the street.
"Then I realized it was swirling debris. That's when we shut the door of the safe room," said Grau, adding that they remained in the room for 10 minutes.
In Wichita, Kan., a tornado touched down near Mid-Content Airport on the city's southwest side shortly before 4 p.m., knocking out power to thousands of homes and businesses but bypassing the most populated areas of Kansas' biggest city. The Wichita tornado was an EF1 on the enhanced Fujita scale, with winds of 110 mph, according to the National Weather Service.
Sedgwick County Emergency Management Director Randy Duncan said there were no reports of fatalities or injuries in Kansas.
There were also two reports of tornadoes touching down in Iowa on Sunday night, including one near Huxley, about 20 miles north of Des Moines, and one in Grundy County, which is northeast of Des Moines, according to the Des Moines Register. There were no immediate reports of major damage or injuries.
In Oklahoma, aerial television news footage showed homes with significant damage northeast of Oklahoma City. Some outbuildings appeared to have been leveled, and some homes' roofs or walls had been knocked down.
"When I first drove into the neighborhood, I didn't see any major damage until I pulled into the front of my house," said Csaba Mathe, of Edmond, who found a part of his neighbor's fence in his swimming pool. "My reaction was: I hope insurance pays for the cleaning."
"I typically have two trash cans, and now I have five in my driveway."
The Storm Prediction Center had been warning about severe weather in the region since Wednesday, and on Friday, it zeroed in on Sunday as the day the storm system would likely pass through.
"They've been calling for this all day," Edmond resident Anita Wright said after riding out the twister in an underground shelter. She and her husband, Ed, emerged from their hiding place to find uprooted trees, downed limbs and damaged gutters in their home.
In Katie Leathers' backyard, the family's trampoline was tossed through a section of fence and a giant tree uprooted.
"I saw all the trees waving, and that's when I grabbed everyone and got into two closets," Leathers said. "All these trees just snapped."
Associated Press writers Ken Miller in Shawnee, Heather Hollingsworth in Kansas City, Mo., and Kelly P. Kissel in Little Rock, Ark., contributed to this report.


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How do you get 100 hindoos into a car?
Throw a quarter in it.
How do you get
them out again?
Tell them Hafizz Saeeed is driving.
U enjoy gang rayping huh?
Good one Zvi. Hindus are scared of Hafizz Saeeed.
Islamic paki raypists are always dirty. Just look at them in blue.
They smell very very bad
Islamic paki raypists are very bad people.
Islamic paki raypists smell like pigs in heat. LMFAO
What do they do with dead hinddoos in California?
Gut them to make wetsuits!
Islamic paki raypists are very dirty people who stink like pigs.
Oh yes.
Islamic paki raypists are always just like a dirty pig. They stink
What's the difference between a dead dog in the road and a dead hinddoou in the road?
The dead dog has skid marks in front of it.
What is a hinddoou? From India and rest of world.
Proof that skunks p huk monkeys.
Seems to me that little dirty Islamic paki raypists are very very filthy. They can clear out a room very quickly . LMFAO
The women of Pakistan enjoy a good gang rayping. Lol
We told Nutanyahoo what to do. Dont come to USA. Keep control of defense machinery in India. That is what Israelis need to do. Control Indian Government.
How do you stop a hinddoou from drowning?
Take your foot off the back of his head.
Islamic paki raypists are always very much in need of a bath.
Their curry BO is very offensive.
Yuk. Smell like my crotch
Islamic paki raypists smell like a room full of dead camels lol
Islamic paki raypists are the worst in bad BO
Islamic paki raypists do gang rayping everyday. Bad bad person.
And their BO can kill a dog.
Wow. Interesting comments.
Islamic paki raypists need to stay out of kashmir. Very bad BO.
Modi is a wonderful man who has done much good.
But the Islamic paki raypists are evil.
Modi is great yes. Many are jealous of him.
The Islamic paki raypists are especially jealous.
Bunch of Islamic Paki raypists. ..
They have all gone to do some gang ra ping in Pakistan. .lol
Modi reminds me of Pol Pot. Not for his looks but for murders and genocides. One a Khmer Rouge and the other BJP. Both terrorists.
Just took a flight from Chicago, O'Hare to Boston. This guy sitting next to me was smelling like rotten onions. I asked him where he was from. He muttered Tamil Nadu, India. I apologized politely to him and told him that I was nauseous due to his BO. That I will call flight attendant to move to another seat. I did so but none were available. Halfway through the flight he opens up a tupperware. It had some kind of fish curry. The smell coupled with his BO did me in. B'fore I could get up I started throwing up all over including into his curry. I was sick. The doctor on the flight helped me move to the toilet. Thank you. I was later told that guy from India kept on eating his curry and licking his fingers in sheer joyful ecstasy. More power to him. I have landed at Logan and am still sick from the odor.
How do you get a hinddoou out of a tree?
Cut the rope.
What is the highest and best use Of hindoous? As kindling wood for KKK!! HOOYAH!!!
Israel is America's b.itch in middle east. Its function these days to run the defense apparatus of India so we can control China.
What the heck is Nutinyahoo doing here? He should be raypin Modi in Bombay.
Well this blog established one thing very clearly. Hindus from India are raypists. Big time. They raype their mothers like it was a sport.
Islamic paki raypists ra pe their own mothers. Dirty paki people.
Current temperature in Bombay is 82°


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This is about hindus killing Kashmiris in Indian Occupied Kashmir. UN has passed several resolutions requiring India to grant independence to Kashmir. India has not complied FOR SEVENTY YEARS!!!! We should start droning India without further ado
Please don't talk in riddles. Be straightforward and condemn India for bad things they are doing in Indian Held Kashmir
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Suffice to say that plebiscite must and should be held in Indian Occupied Kashmir in accordance with the mandate of UN. Nothing more nothing less.
This is a matter of principles.
The concept is no different than what we Americans are doing in Puerto Rico. Let the people decide their fate. This is what democracy is all about.
Unlike what hindoos did in Indian Occupied Kashmir, we Americans didn't send in the Army to Puerto Rico to occupy it and raype the people.
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Hi. I am a Muslim.
India and Narendra Modi.
Is just.
Modi is blessed.
India is marvelous too
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95% of hindus don't have toilets in India as they either can't afford it, don't consider it is necessary or a waste of space or they are simply pure unhygienic. Call it progress.
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The Indian society has become so decadent that a 10 year old girl patient being transported in an ambulance was rayped by the driver. I am convinced that the break up of India is inevitable.
Happy Father's Day, Narendra Modi. Have a wonderful and pleasant day.
Living in the shadows of Pakistan, defined by China, haunted by Kashmir and punctuated by Terror Organizations such as Shiv Sena, India is struggling to find a meaning for its existence (besides a call center) and a place in the new world order.
Yep. That's right Prime Minister Modi. Happy Father's Day. We love you.
Keep up the good work. And please remember, no plebiscite. Enough land has already been stolen from India.
Yup. A father. Plenty raipists there in India.
That's right. Those dirty Muslims have already taken waaaaayyyy too much land..land thieves!
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The recent Maoist violence in Bastar, which left 328 people dead, is no aberration. The Global Peace Index (GPI) 2013, which was released on Tuesday, has ranked India among the 25 least peaceful nations to live in. The country was placed 141 among 162 nations, having lost more than two lives a day — or a staggering 799 persons — to internal conflicts in 2012. Others were South Sudan and Afghanistan
People from India are cannibals and woman abusers.
@Cybil. .so?
The Indian Government cant feed the people, cant protect it from invasions, calamities. There is no law and order, raypes galore, corruption everywhere.....at some point you have to break India up into independent nations,
@Azalea. Ok..so?
Dont kid yourself and try to spread false information. Kashmir belongs to the Muslim majority. Just like US is letting the Puerto Ricans decide their fate, a plebiscite needs to be held in Kashmir under UN supervision to allow these people to decide their future. That is what democracy is all about
Prominent Indian writer and human rights activist, Arundhati Roy has said that Indian army and police are using raype as a weapon against people in Kashmir and parts of India like Manipur.
Arundhati Roy in a media interview in New Delhi while commenting on the issue of the recent Delhi raype incident said that when raype was used as a means of domination by the Upper Caste of the Hindus or by army and police in India, it always went unpunished.
..listen to the r tard.
Blah blah blah
Deflection of attention from Indian Occupied Kashmir will not make the problem go away. In fact it is turning India into a living hell. You can abuse all you want. You must be ashamed, helpless and frustrated. Instead of wasting time abusing, go tell your government to stop the genocide in Kashmir. Hold plebiscite in Kashmir in accordance with UN resolutions.
And so?
I want to see resolutions in UN, United States Congress and British Parliament condemning the atrocities by Hinddoosz in Indian Occupied Kashmir. I want to see elections held giving the Kashmiris the right of self determination. And I want to see it now. Very simple concept.
Yea man. Like so?
According to CNN, India has now started killing civilians along the border. These are indigenous Kashmiris. I am not surprised. The Indians have been killing them for 70 years. Maybe someday the world will notice. Till then the Kashmiris will keep fighting for their freedom just the way the French Resistance did from the Nazis during WW2
Mumbai and Chennai are the illegal cricket gambling capitals of the world. Cash Flows from these operations are being siphoned off by the Indian government to finance terrorists globally, particularly in the region. This off the book financing is also being used, as in the case of sales of illegal booze, to finance the Talibans and Al Qaeda and pay them hush money. This way the Indians are able to dodge the American financial radar.The American congressional politicians have been alerted to the double game Indians are playing.
@Zakaria Abu Rajkumari.
The fact of the matter is that the cricket matches in India are fixed, the players are being bribed, IPL is a laundry for black money, the owners are gambling on their own teams and politicians are also on the take. What is there to argue? These are all facts!!!
In Colombia most of soccer matches were fixed by Pablo people. It took a whole generation and billions to fix it. Millions died also.
@ Felix So?
Whether someone is Irish or American or Australian is irrelevant. The whole world is out here saying match fixing is wrong. Just like gang rhaping is wrong inspite of its cultural acceptability in India.
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It's always interesting to see how fame re-frames a person. This past Tuesday eve – on the tenth anniversary of Susie Fishbein's first book of her wildly successful Kosher by Design (published by ARTSCROLL) – the launching of her 8th cookbook (Cooking Coach) took place at Pomegranate Supermarket.
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Susie, fresh from a summer cooking tour of Tuscany, is as gracious, unpretentious and down to earth as ever. Amazingly, she still has that warm, approachable 'everywoman' in the kitchen, poised well within a comfort zone honed by years of test and taste experimentation and exploration of ingredients prepping meals for family and friends. Her early training as a teacher who inspired fourth graders to harness the essential techniques and tools beyond the blackboard factoids through cementing experiences, was very much in evidence now as chef extraordinaire. Susie seeks to achieve similar goals for her avid fans in cooking coach; "My true job is to free people from cookbooks and the written word to become more intuitive cooks" As Albert Einstein once said: "I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn." Susie 's latest features easy to follow step by step pictorial Game Plan covering essential equipment, stocking one's kitchen and key essentials for prep and cooking of meat & poultry, fish, salads & soups from appetizers through desserts. Cooking Coach has a well-organized Playbook detailing creative makeovers for yesterday's leftovers to new alternate dishes bearing but a dash of resemblance.
Fellow bloggers and members of the press sampled Playbook in action as Susie demoed onstage; ground turkey sautéed with frozen spinach transformed into three wonderful fresh dishes: Turkey Taco Eggrolls, Turkey Stuffed Mushrooms and a terrific pasta penne dish using Pomegranate's own Marinara Sauce.Gavriel Sanders, Artscrtoll's publicist for the Kosher by Design series, mc'd and fielded questions from the audience, delivering a seamless media event. Pomegranate was the perfect host and venue for this private media reception. Susie signed copies of the complimentary Kosher by Design Cooking Coach that the evening's participants received in their swag bag along with complementary products from Pomegranate. A full review of Susie's new cookbook will be featured here next week along with a recipe. Thanks to Susie Fishbein and Pomegranate for a most delightful evening and an exciting new cookbook to reach for, until we intuitively 'get it' and need but reach within.


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For me, Valentine's Day is all about chocolate.
Most chocolate is gluten-free. Some chocolates, however, contain barley malt, like Lindt's Lindor chocolate truffles, making them off-limits for celiacs. (For another discussion on gluten-free chocolates, see the Triumph Dining blog.)
For Valentine's Day, the kids and I made homemade chocolate truffles dusted with coconut, cocoa, cinnamon and ground almonds. These sophisticated truffles look complicated but are easy to make — and even easier to eat!
If kids can roll a ball of Play-Doh (which is not gluten-free, by the way), they can roll truffles. It is messy, though. My 8-year-old's hands were quickly covered in chocolate — and I feared for what would happen next — so she put on a long-sleeved art smock.
After rolling a bunch of truffles, we used the rest of the chocolate to make chocolate-covered strawberries. Yum!
I once went to a mom's night out at Whole Foods where we made truffles and drank wine. This recipe is adapted from the one we used that night.
Homemade Chocolate Truffles
(Gluten-Free, Dairy, Kid-Friendly)
- 1 1/2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
- 1/2 cup heavy cream
- 1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract
- Unsweetened cocoa powder
- Shredded coconut
- Cinnamon sugar
- Finely ground almonds
1. Place chocolate in a bowl. In a small, heavy saucepan over medium-low heat, heat the cream until it starts to steam. Pour cream over chocolate. Wait two minutes, then stir the chocolate until the mixture is smooth. (If all of the chunks have not melted, microwave the mixture for 30 seconds on half power.) Add vanilla and stir to combine. Cover bowl with plastic wrap and refrigerate until firm, at least 3 hours.
2. Put toppings in ramekins or small bowls, and set aside.
3. Remove chocolate from refrigerator and let sit on counter for 5 minutes to slightly soften.
4. Scoop up about 1 teaspoon of chocolate and roll between your hands to form a 1-inch ball.
5. Drop each truffle into a topping and roll to coat. Transfer to a serving plate or place in mini candy cup wrappers (like mini cupcake liners). Truffles may be stored in refrigerator for up to 2 weeks.
Yield: About 25 to 30 truffles
Chocolate-Covered Strawberries
(Gluten-Free, Dairy, Kid-Friendly)
1 pound (16 ounces) strawberries
Chocolate truffle mixture (see Homemade Chocolate Truffle recipe above)
Toppings (see recipe above)
1. Wash room-temperature strawberries, leaving green stem and leaves on. Dry completely on paper towels.
2. Prepare chocolate mixture, as directed in Homemade Chocolate Truffle recipe (above).
3. Grasp strawberries by the leaves and dip 3/4 of the strawberry into bowl of chocolate. As you lift it from the chocolate, twirl the strawberry to catch any dripping chocolate.
4. Dip chocolate-covered strawberry in toppings. Place on cookie sheet lined with waxed paper. Promptly refrigerate and consume within 3 days.
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Lawn Chair Quilts
Yield TWO 48″ x 75″ finished quilts
by Monica Solorio-Snow of Happy Zombie
Great quilt for the beginner quilter, and fun for the experienced quilter. No triangles or biased edges… no points to be perky, and no seams to meet up. Perfect for a retreat project – fun and fast. Especially fun if you're enjoying a quilt retreat with a picnic on the lawn.
Instructions are based on 42″ – 44″ width of fabric
All seams ¼"
Picnic not included
- 1 Jelly Roll of It's a Hoot by MoMo (or 32 – 2½" strips)
- 2 Jelly Rolls of Moda Bella Solid (or 4⅝ yard of yardage, cut into 64 – 2½" strips)
For each quilt:
- 54″ x 81″ batting
- ½ yard binding
- 2¼ yard backing
1. Divide It's a Hoot strips into color groups:
16 strips of pinks, reds & yellows with 32 strips of solid
16 strips of blues & greens with 32 strips of solid
2. Working in one color group at a time, set aside one color group to be assembled after completion of first color group.
3. Join a solid strip to each side of the It's a Hoot print to make a 3-piece unit. Press to the print. Make 16.
4. From each of the sixteen 3-piece units, cut:
2) 12½" x 6½" units
2) 6½" x 6½" units
1) 3½" x 6½" units (from eight 3-piece units only)
5. With assorted print units, assemble row as per diagram. Press. Make 8 rows.
6. Join rows to complete the quilt top, alternating each row in an opposite direction. Press. Layer, baste, quilt and bind.
7. Repeat steps 3 – 6 for second color group quilt.
Please note:The photographs show an extra row because I had leftover fabric and had enough to make an additional row. I had added the row on after I wrote the instructions, and my apologies for not noting that.The pattern, illustrations and measurements do not include the additional row. Of course free free to add the row if you have left over and extra batting/backing/binding.
Yield TWO quilts – or one if using one of the tops as your backing.
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Police: Man repeatedly rammed his wife's car
A Frost Bottom community man was arrested for two counts of aggravated assault after he allegedly rammed his truck into his wife's car.
Oak Ridge Police Officer Michael Swigert arrested 47-year-old Goman Elb Harness, 940 Frost Bottom Road, Oliver Springs, shortly after midnight Saturday after he allegedly intentionally rammed his pickup truck into the back of his wife's car. She was reportedly trying to drive away after an argument.
Reports said the victim and Harness got into an argument in Oliver Springs and she drove away with her 4-year-old daughter in the car. Her husband intentionally rammed her car with his truck, causing the car to go into a spin, reports said.
The victim drove away and called 911 while her husband was chasing her in his truck into Oak Ridge, reports said. During the chase, Harness reportedly rammed her car two or three more times until he was stopped by the officer.
Harness was taken to the Anderson County jail and was released on Monday after posting a $50,000 bond.
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